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The victory capped a sensational year for the Brit, following her victory in the London Marathon, where Radcliffe set a course-record time, as well as gold medal success at the European Championships and Commonwealth Games.

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Koeman hails Guardiola philosophy

Manchester City v Everton (Sat, 15:00 BST)

Everton boss Ronald Koeman, who was at Barcelona with Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola, says: "We have spent many hours together talking about football. I see a lot in his teams from Dutch football. I like that."

Peaty rested for short course event

Olympic champion Adam Peaty is the noticeable absentee from the British Swimming team named for December's World short course championships in Windsor, Canada.

The Rio 100m breaststroke gold medallist has been given more time to recover following his exploits in the summer, as has fellow individual podium finishers Siobhan-Marie O'Connor and Jazz Carlin.

Stephen Milne and Dan Wallace are the only Rio medallists in the squad - having competed as part of the 4x200m freestyle relay team who finished second.

The event - which takes place in a 25m pool, unlike the Olympics which takes place in a 50m pool - will see Scotland's Hannah Miley return to action for the first time since the Rio Games where she was fourth in the 400m individual medley final.

Jones & Davies to take temporary charge

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Wrexham sack boss Mills

Football

Wrexham manager Gary Mills has left the club, with them 15th in the National League and after only one win in their last six games.

A club statement said: "This was a difficult decision but despite some exciting and entertaining football last season, our main priority is promotion back to the Football League and we have not made the progress expected towards that aim."

The club face a FA Cup fourth qualifying game at Stamford on Saturday.

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Bradley savours Emirates debut

Arsenal v Swansea (Sat, 15:00 BST)

New Swansea coach Bob Bradley says leading the team out at Arsenal will up "up there" as a career highlight. "We have to go there with confidence when we have the ball. We have to go to play - to play passes forward," he explains.

"We have to make sure that defensively, the distance between our lines is right and our awareness is right."

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Lyle regains Hickory Open crown

Golf

Staying with golf and former Open and Masters champion Sandy Lyle has regained the Hickory Open title after winning by an emphatic 10 shots at Panmure. The popular Scotsman, who first won the title in 2014, carded rounds of 67 and 71 in the event honouring golf club manufacturing of yesteryear.

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Westwood in touch at British Masters

Golf

Ryder Cup stalwart Lee Westwood posted six birdies in a round of 67 to move within a shot of the lead on day one of the British Masters at The Grange in Hertfordshire.

The 43-year-old, who failed to win a point from his three matches in the defeat at Hazeltine, missed the cut in last week's Dunhill Links after an 82 but said of his opening round on Thursday: "It's the best I've played in quite a while.

"My driving has not been great but I drove it really well today and gave myself a lot of chances. I've been working on a couple of things on the swings, looking at old videos when I was getting in good positions."

Scotsman Marc Warren shares the lead at five under after four birdies and an eagle.

Ranieri puzzled at poor away form

Claudio Ranieri's Leicester, the reigning Premier League champions, have lost all three of their away league matches this season, and face another tricky test as they play at Chelsea on Saturday.

Ranieri admitted he could not understand what had gone wrong on the road.

"It is difficult to say why," said Ranieri. "In the first match (at Hull) we were unlucky as we created chances, the other two matches we deserved to lose, Liverpool and Manchester (United) were better than us."

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Leicester lost to Jose Mourinho's Manchester United 4-1 in the Foxes' last away Premier League match

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Spurs are more mature - Pochettino

West Brom v Tottenham (Sat, 15:00 BST)

He may be playing down talk of the title but Spurs are the only unbeaten team in the top flight this term and boss Mauricio Pochettino is pleased with their progress. "We are more mature and more focused to make every game like a final," he says. "Every point is very important and we have improved on that from last season."

'I had a nightmare season last year'

Some quotes from Chris Wakelin, who has just beaten five-time world snooker champion Ronnie O'Sullivan 4-3 in the third round of the English Open in Manchester.

"I'm very relieved in the end, I had several chances to get over the line," Wakelin tells Eurosport. "When I missed the pink at 3-2 I feared the worst. You don't get many chances against any of the top players, but in the last frame there were a couple of points where I thought 'you are throwing this away, Chris'.

"I had a nightmare season last year and never got past the second round so I'm delighted to get into the last 16."

World number 70 Wakelin will play either Australia's former world champion Neil Robertson or China's Xiao Guodong in the last 16 later on tonight.